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  1. Gregory Irwin
    I want to wish my good friend and colleague, Larry Sher, for his ASC nomination for JOKER. I’m very proud of him and the company he shares with the other nominees including Roger, Rodrigo, Phedon and Bob. Good luck my friend!!! G
  2. Gregory Irwin
    Thank you Tom for recognizing our contribution to the filmmaking process! An excerpt from his Golden Globes acceptance speech: “And this is a thing that happens with actors at some point on a movie. A movie is made shot by shot, everybody knows that. Lina Wertmüller knows it, Marty Scorsese knows it, Jackie Chan knows that a movie is made shot by shot, and at that moment, what is required is everybody has to do their job to their perfection... Sometimes, it's the focus puller that if this isn't sharp, you don't have it, and it shows up, and you have to do it all over again. But it's those moments as an actor where everybody I have ever worked with has helped me get to that place.” I had the pleasure of working with Mr. Hanks on THE GREEN MILE and he was a true pleasure. G
  3. Gregory Irwin
    I love ya Richard but you’re comments continuously prove the case for having a union. G
  4. Gregory Irwin
    I guess he’s got his and forget about all of the people who helped get him there. G
  5. Gregory Irwin
    I’d love to read that version! The irony is of course, all of the major producers in our biz ARE union. They all belong to the DGA. ?
  6. Gregory Irwin
    No offense taken mate! Happy New Year! G
  7. Gregory Irwin
    What my camera guild offers me: 1. a contract that levels the playing field between employees and employers that creates respect between the two. 2. the opportunity to work with the world’s top people on the top productions. 3. training programs to ensure that I will always work with the top crews who are always educated on new technology and on the business side of the camera. 4. health care and pension plans paid for by my employers that will continue with me for life and then will continue for my wife if she survives me. 5. Pay scales that allow me and my family to live a very comfortable life the way we wish to. 6. Invested financial retirement plans that are contributed to by my employers on my behalf and will cash out to me upon my retirement. There is more to list that contributes to making me and my family feel secure in a freelance business that can be very insecure. With every hour I work, I build equity in myself. That’s what my union offers me and many other members. G
  8. Gregory Irwin
    My wife and I just watched this wonderful story of profound history. Most was enjoyable. Excellent casting, enthralling script and outstanding performances. What we could not get behind was the cinematography. For an elegant and surprisingly lighthearted story, the photography was jarring and Paparazzi-like. The style was inconsistent during individual sequences and extremely distracting. It was not befitting to the story. So disappointing. But having said this (with the knowledge of coming criticism and skepticism), we truly enjoyed the picture. G
  9. Gregory Irwin
    Ah! I see it now. Frank is exactly right. All you need is a longer tie down screw that you can get at any hardware store. G
  10. Gregory Irwin
    I’m not clear on what pin you are using. Below is the Matthews Monitor Mount that we use for for the same purpose. This can be purchased through Filmtools.com. for less than $200 USD. I’m not sure where you are and shipping could be expensive. You may be able to source it more locally. Good luck! G
  11. Gregory Irwin
    I'm not sure if any of us understands your issue. Please explain more thouroghly. G
  12. Gregory Irwin
    Never had the chance to go Checkers. I had a driver always waiting for me at wrap and I was whisked away to TriBeCa where I was staying. G
  13. Gregory Irwin
    Nice! I lived near Kahala. Enjoy the aloha! G
  14. Gregory Irwin
    Whaaaa??? I lived in Hawaii for years! What island are you on?
  15. Gregory Irwin
    Happy Holidays to everyone!
  16. Gregory Irwin
    I guess that’s accurate. I’m just not sure what the character would be. Look, that’s my opinion. It doesn’t make me right. They are used plenty. G
  17. Gregory Irwin
    Honestly Stuart, they don’t match in any way as a set. Also, similar focal lengths range all over the place in sharpness and contrast. Zero consistency Mechanically, they feel a bit flimsy. Some people love them so what do I know? ? G
  18. Gregory Irwin
    You’re so welcome! To answer your questions: yes yes not sure. The lens choices were based on several factors. They needed to be spherical (1:1.85), small in size, light weight, close focus and high speed. The converted still lenses had the look that Larry was going for as opposed to the available cine lenses at the time, although we carried some Cine lenses as well. The biggest challenge in the lens search was which lenses would cover the Alexa 65 sensor with a minimal extraction percentage? Lenses that terribly vignetted were ruled out immediately regardless of their optical quality. Out of the preferred lenses that did vignette, the question was could we open the iris or improve other physical barriers that would allow improved performance and less vignette? I tested somewhere around 200 lenses to end up with the 19 we chose for the movie. I believe we settled on a 5% extraction of the sensor. And as I mentioned before, out of the selected lenses that allowed us to do so, we changed lens coatings, changed color and flare characteristics in order to make this mixed bag match better. In the end, we mostly shot JOKER with maybe 7 lenses. All in all, my camera prep was around 7-8 weeks to accomplish all of this. Happy Holidays all! G
  19. Gregory Irwin
    That’s awesome! I’ll be sure to show him this. He’ll enjoy it. Merry Christmas Miguel! G
  20. Gregory Irwin
    The DNAs are made by ARRI for their large format cameras like the Alexa 65. They are decent pro-sumer lenses at best as far as I’m concerned. G
  21. Gregory Irwin
    Pictured here is my “cheat sheet” of our lenses. In reality, the Canon T1.3s, the Leica 90mm and the Nikon 58mm were the work horse lenses that were employed the most. It’s a bit of a Frankenstein lens package at best! I was able to detune certain lenses to make them match better in terms of color an contrast as well. Arri Rental in NYC was instrumental to us achieving the look we were trying to achieve. G G
  22. Gregory Irwin
    Yes and no. It depends on the relationship between the two and the trust level. Also, the DP can establish the rules of the game early on and then allow the team to make decisions within those rules. That way when you as a DP have an “A” list camera team, you don’t have to micromanage. That allows the team to make intelligent decisions, be involved and have a stake in the responsibility for such decisions. For example, on JOKER, once Larry gave me his parameters for the type of lens requirements he wanted, the actual lens choices were entirely my own. The lens package was mine to own and if it didn’t work out for some reason, it was my responsibility and that would certainly reflect on the cinematographer. I can’t have that. I go all in for intelligent choices and thus I have skin in the game. That goes for every member of my camera team whether you are the Key 2nd AC or even the digital loader. Decisions must be independently made for their realm but must fit into the overall goals of the picture. But in the end, the responsibility goes upward to the top making each of us creditworthy (or not) to the boss and production. That’s why camera teams can stay together for years because of the trust levels and track records. G
  23. Gregory Irwin
    You know PJ Miguel? He’s a fantastic guy. Good cameraman too! I will say hello for you! G
  24. Gregory Irwin
    I’m sure we shot with a long shutter many times Stuart on JOKER. My DIT, Nick Kay is a fan of utilizing shutter with exposure needs to trade off going to a high EI value. Though I don’t have our camera log books anymore, we most likely shot all of the dark, slo mo with a 360 degree shutter. Currently, Nick and I are employing many of the same strategies on our Marvel show with cinematographer, PJ Dillon (Game of Thrones) in order to serve over-cranked exposure needs for our low light, 8K, anamorphic format. G
  25. Gregory Irwin
    Panavision film cameras ran 200 deg. shutters. I think it was a marketing ploy and really didn’t do much more than the traditional 180 shutter. G
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